Improvement in insect-powder boxes



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Insect-Powder Box.

No. 165,276, Patentedlulywsls.

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WILLIAM J. VAN PATTEN, OE BURLINGTON, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR To WELLS, RICHARDSON s: OO., OE SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN INSECT-POWDER BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,276, dated July 6, 1875; application filed March 17, 1875.

To all whom it may concern suitable materials and form-the one shown Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. VAN PAT- in the drawings being composed of rubber TEN, of the city of Burlington, county of Ghitand glass -leaving the same iu position for tenden and State of Vermont, have invented use until the contents of the box are distriban Improvement in Powder-Boxes, ot' which uted, when the blow-tube may be transferred the following is a specification: l to a new box of powder.

The object of my invention is to so con- In putting up the powders, the cover G is struct a boxsuch boxes as are usually used secured to the body of the box by a strong ture E covered by said label or wrapper, and being marked and so placed on the box that the position of the aperture E at both sides can be determined without dijculty.

powders-that, without removing the cover of the box, the contents of the same may be thoroughly and economically distributed or diffused at will ofthe user, and with absolute safety and cleanliness. After the label or wrapper has been punc- In carrying out my invention I use any tured, a small plug or cork is used to close suitable Wood, and, instead ot' cutting or the aperture E at e, and,if desirable to take turning out the inside in the usual form, out the blow-tube F, a similar stopper is used I run the straight side B two-thirds only in its place. of the depth ot' the block A, from which What I claim as my invention ispoint I make the bottom oi' the box in form l. A powder-box constructed in one piece, of a flattened inverted cone, G, which concenand having a cone-shaped bottom, G, a vertrates the contents at point D, where the apex tical aperture, D, connecting with a horizonof the cone C is perforated, to allow the powtal aperture, E, the latter being formed with der to pass through to an aperture, E, which shoulder c at one end, and a funnel-shaped latter passes through the box near the botoutlet, c, at the other end. tom and parallel to it. This aperture (E) is 2. A powder-box constructed as above deformed with a shoulder, e', at one end, and scribed, and in combination with a mouthwith a funnelshaped outlet, c", at the other piece or tube to force the contents through end-the former to form a stop for glass or and out of the horizontal aperture E, as Speciother tube and bring the line of the interior fled.

of the same on line with the smaller size of WILLIAM J. VAN IATTEN. aperture E, and latter to facilitate the radia- Witnesses: tion. of the powder. I insert at the aperture EDWARD C. RYER,

E, at c', a blow-tube, F, of any desirable and ANDREW J. HOWARD.

fort-he putting up of insect and other like'\ label or wrapper, and the outlets to the aper 

